George Eliot Quotes

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

George Eliot

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• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Money
  • Something
  • Worth

• The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Women
  • Money

• I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Money

• In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • World
  • Live
  • Money

• The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Man
  • Health

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • Interesting

• New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Real
  • Money
  • City

• I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Road
  • Touring

• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • You
  • Like

• I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there 'cause they really want to be there. It makes all the difference in the world. It's without ego and agenda, other than just wanting to fulfill a creative dream.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Dream
  • Energy
  • Creative

• Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Money
  • Failure
  • Bank

• Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money

• I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Money
  • Want

• Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Great
  • Money

• What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Know
  • Never

• We want to be a consolidator, not a seller, and we want to continue to explore the kind of targeted entertainment, targeted audiences, that I think are happening and emerging in every country in the world.

  

  Jon Feltheimer
  • World
  • Country
  • Explore

• In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • American
  • Political

• We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

  

  George Eliot
  • Money
  • Deal